Wire package binder



Dec. 17, 1929. A. J. GERRARD 1,739,962

WIRE PACKAGE BINDER File d Sept. 22. 1925 Patented Dec. 17, 1929 ALEC J'. GERBARD, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO THE GERRARD COMPANY INC., OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF DELAWARE ATN'T F I WIRE PACKAGE BINDER I Application filed September 22, 1923. Serial No. 664,250.

This invention is a wire package binder, which is so applied to a package as to embed the wire in the material composing the pacllage or its enclosing case, with a view to compensating for shrinkage, and to prevent the binder from slipping off the package or its enclosing casing, thus obviating the requirement for the use of staples, or other fasteners, to preclude the binder from displacement 1 from said package in case of shrinkage.

In the art of binding packages with wire it is desirable, if not essential, that the wire binder shall be placed under tension, but it is found that the wire has a tendency to slip in the tensioning means and thus defeat the object of sufficiently tensioning the binder.

My purpose is to provide a binder of novel construction which is held or gripped in such a way as to preclude slipping of said binder in the direction of its length while being put under tension, and insuring its being thus held while the ends 6 of the binder are united.

The invention consists of a wire binder composed of a length of wire having a portion adjacent an end deflected out of the plane of the wire to produce a shoulder, said shouldered part of the wire serving in conjunction with an abutment of an appropriate tensioning means to positively restrain the binder from slipping during the operation of applying tension to said binder.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a perspective view of a package provided with a wire binder made in accordance with this invention;

Figure 2 is a detail view showing the end portions of the wire illustrated in Figure 1.

In Figure 2 the wire binder A is provided with a shoulder a, or with a plurality of shoulders a a, said shoulders being oifset from the plane of the wire. When a single shoulder is used, it is formed on the wire near one end portion thereof, but in case two shoulders are used, as at a a, they are provided near the respective ends of the binder. These shoulders are preformed, and they are produced by any means suitable for the purpose. Said shoulders perform the function of abutments (Z, and they are adapted to cooperate with abutments of suitable tensioning means by which the wire binder is put under it:

tension after having been placed around the package. It is necessary to apply very considerable tension to the wire binder in order to embed said binder in the corners of the package with a View to preventing the binder from slipping off the package in case of shrinkage; in fact, it is not sufficient in applying binders to packages to merely draw the wire taut, but subsequently to the operation of taking up slack in the wire so as to place it in a taut condition, it is desirable to apply such further tension to the binder as to cause it to be embedded in the corners of the package. By the use of my wire binder the shoulders of which are in abutting relation to cooperative abutments of the tensioning means the wire is held against slipping, not only while being tensioned, but after having been put under the requisite tension and while the ends of the wire binder are being united.

When used in conjunction with means for applymg tension to the binder at one of its end portions only, the shoulder at the other.

end may cooperate with any suitable means for holding the said end against slipping during the tensioning operation.

It is to be noted that in the shouldered wire there is a recess C, providing an intervening; space forming separated shoulders, but an essential feature of the invention is the forma tion of the wire to produce an abutting shoulder a or a, with a terminal portion 6 of the wire extending freely beyond said shoullength a wire cross-sectional area of substan tially the same magnitude as the Wire proper.

2. A wire package binder comprising a length of wire distorted and kinked adjacent its ends, said kink being of substantially V- shape and having uniformly throughout its length a Wire cross-sectional area of substantially the same magnitude as the wire proper, said kinked portion forming with the wire proper a shoulder adapted to resist slipping when tension is applied thereto.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

ALEC J. GERRARD. 

